what is the deal with white eggs?

[EricaNernie]

i buy them from waitrose, purely for a novelty value
i did half catch a jeremy vine radio discussion about them but didnt learn much.

is it just waitrose? or are they making a come back
i know in some respect they are aesthetically pleasing > but didnt they go out of fashion in the 70s?

EricaNernie I have no idea how much they are in shops as I never buy them! Just noticed that local sellers are charging more based on their signs.

My white leghorn keeps escaping and laying at the side of the garage and then is desperate to get back in.

@User478 you do need to keep eggs in the US in the fridge because of washing, but they aren't necessarily packaged in plastic. Lots of stores have egg cartons like the UK, even on the cheaper lines.

White hens lay white eggs, brown hens lay brown eggs etc I remember being ridiculed at school for saying this.

Ours eggs are usually blue though I didnt think the hens were blue

I bought some once by mistake.
I think they look horrible. They tasted the same I was told.

We have eggs with blue shells, the yolks are really orange so when we make pancakes they are yellow like omelettes

In Canada we can buy white or brown eggs at the supermarket, I always buy brown as I do think they taste better (usually free run/organic etc), the white eggs seem to have thinner shells and are usually cheaper to buy.

Blue shelled eggs doesn’t mean there will be really yellow yolks. Depends on the feed. So I’m currently feeding my white egg chickens loads of spinach and their egg yolks are even more yellow than usual. Grass, green veg and corn will turn yolks deeper yellow.

Some of my pekin bantams are brown feathered and some are blue feather (lavender). They all lay the same colour eggs.

I got some too - they seem really brittle - I ended up with bits of shell in my cake mix

I buy the boxes of mixed large free range eggs from Waitrose. They are a number of shades from very pale beige to rich golden, almost conker brown. I tend to eat the darker ones first as to me, they tend to look more appetising and seem to have richer coloured yolks (again, more appetising to me). I don’t think of them as healthier in any way.

Waitrose essential free range eggs have been white for a while, definitely long before the pandemic.

Oh hens are so beautiful....I'd love to keep a couple, ex battery ones, but foxes abound in this area.. The sounds they make are so lovely. DS looked after some for a friend, all rescued ones, and they laid wonky eggs of all sizes..They lived in an orchard, and scratched about all day, and were hard to put to bed sometimes..A lovely family member by marriage always kept hens, and I have a pic of her, aged 99, cuddling a pet hen, while wearing pearls. She made it to 100, passing away shortly before the Pandemic.

The best tasting eggs seemed to come from the Orchard hens...possibly as they had access to earthworms, insects and other bits they foraged, alongside their food...very rich yolks.
Double yolk eggs used to be much more common ..haven't seen a double yolk egg in years.

I love chickens. We used to have 7 of them, carefully chosen so each laid a different coloured egg. It meant we knew whose egg we were eating on a given day. It was really nice.

I miss my chooks.

@Oakmaiden..a relative as a child was evacuated, and was told to collect the eggs...and said ''I can't get them, she's sitting on them''....to be told in no short order to get them anyway...This relative had a phobia of feathers . An old stable block I walked past used to have chickens in it..and the chickens would run up to 'say hello'...or maybe hoping for food? ..the sound is soothing, but a neighbour has a very loud squawking hen who isn't remotely soothing to listen to...Maybe it mans she had laid an egg and wanted everyone to know about it :)

You know when a hen has laid an egg (especially if it's a biggun).

cluck cluck cluck - cluckcluckcluckcluck CLAAAAAAAAAAAARKKKKKK cluckcluckcluck cluck.

redwoodmazza

I read this as 'What's the deal with egg whites?'
I was expecting lots of meringue recipes...
Me too

BigusBumus

I keep lots of hens. White hens lay white eggs, brown hens lay brown eggs etc. I have a big tall grey one that mega unfriendly and she lays blue ones.

I know other posters have said this isn't the case, but I'm almost sad that blue eggs don't come from blue hens

Blue shelled eggs doesn’t mean there will be really yellow yolks. Depends on the feed.

Yes, I assumed that was the case. I've just used the last one so when more are laid I'll see if they are the same.

When my sister moved to the states she commented that where the eggs were brown here, in the US she could only get white. Not sure if it’s the same now.

I have noticed the often the only ones you can get these days for some reason are the blue ones!

I cracked a double yolker (home laid) into a cake mix last week, it was larger than normal for that hen - but not massive.

MitziK

We have four hens, and only one sings the Egg Song. Ironic that she's the biggest chuck, and lays the teeniest eggs

Where I’m from brown eggs are more expensive and are from free range hens. White eggs are from battery hens.

I do recall a perception that brown eggs were healthier, as brown bread and the apparent benefits of bran were also catching on, at the time.

I love the pretty little blue eggs. The yolks are so rich. They're too expensive for anything other than the occasional dippy egg treat, though.

Where I grew up, white eggs were the norm. And as a result, Easter Egg decorating was much more of a thing, from simple crayon wax on eggs dipped in food colouring dyes, to complicated Ukranian egg decoration, to everything in between. We used to have competitions at school for decorating eggs, places would put on egg decorating activities, etc. You often used hard-boiled eggs, and then you ate them on Easter. Sometimes they were hidden around the house by the Easter bunny. Chocolate eggs were much less of a feature than they are here (I mean, they existed, you usually got one from your parents/Easter bunny, but this whole thing about given dozens of chocolate eggs to all the children you know didn't happen). The whole Easter thing would have been quite different if the eggs weren't white!

I was surprised when I came here and all the eggs were brown. I thought that they must be a different sort, but then I got used to it and now white ones look unusual.

We don't sell our eggs, we give them away. I've got one set of really good neighbours and they tend to get at least a box of six a week, sometimes two. In turn, the woman loves baking and bakes us cakes and scones and all sorts